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"Then I would like to say very briefly to Mr Dupuis that there are no current plans to make Georgia a candidate country. I certainly do not believe that Georgia meets the conditions for this. Regarding Chechnya I can say that the situation there will be included in the EU’s dialogue with Russia during the Danish Presidency. I will say to Mr Camre that he must have misunderstood me if he got the impression that I think that the decision on enlargement of the EU could be deferred without risk. If so, then Mr Camre has completely misunderstood my presentation, for on the contrary I conclude that it is now this autumn – that is, before the end of this year – that a decision must be taken on enlargement of the EU.
Then Mrs Ursula Stenzel asked whether the timetable set is realistic. Yes, I think that the timetable is realistic. It is ambitious, but it
realistic and here we must remember that the European Council in Seville made a very clear decision that the EU is to present a common standpoint on direct agricultural subsidies to the candidate countries by the beginning of November at latest. And that gives sufficient time between the beginning of November and the EU summit in Copenhagen in December for us to conduct the concluding negotiations with the candidate countries.
I would like to thank you for the clear and strong mandate that the European Parliament has today given the Danish Presidency regarding enlargement of the EU. I confirm that there is full agreement between Parliament, the Commission and the Presidency concerning the frameworks of the work ahead of us. Firstly, enlargement is the main task of the Danish Presidency, of the Union and of Europe, and secondly we have a unique and historic opportunity that we must not pass up. If we do not conclude the negotiations by the end of the year we risk deferring the enlargement far into the future. I would like to thank the Parliament for its support. The Danish Presidency will do its utmost to ensure that we can achieve a result at the summit in Copenhagen in December, but – as I said earlier – the Presidency cannot achieve this task alone. It requires support from all our partners. Not just Parliament and the Commission, but also the Member States and the candidate countries. Thirteen years have now passed since the fall of the Wall. Nine years have passed since the summit in Copenhagen at which we set the criteria for membership, and five years since the negotiations were started. We cannot now ask the candidate countries to wait any longer. It is now that we must deliver on our promises. It is now that we must be aware of our historic responsibility. It is now that we must close one of the dark chapters in the history of Europe. I look forward to cooperating with the European Parliament on this major task.
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